Rising
of the Son no 5
Seed
for Every Season pt 4 Evidence of Seed Life
October 2, 2016
Brian
Kocourek, pastor
Therefore I would like to break down
this thought into 5 stages.
#1) There is a Seed for every season.
#2) That Seed is a Word That God has ordained for
each season that he sends like rain (or doctrine) to produce the
fruit for the season.
#3) When this Seed manifests who it is, this manifestation of the Seed
vindicates that this Seed was indeed for this Season.
#4) This manifestation of the Seed life
by being quickened by the Word for the season, is the evidence that the Seed is
God's Seed.
We've been
talking about the fact that God has a Seed for every season, and that there is
a rain for every seed in every season, and that rain is the doctrine of the
season, the word and promises for that season.
We have shown
that the manifestation of the seed in its season is the vindication that the
seed was indeed for the season, and this morning i would like to take this one
step further by showing that the seed being quickened and manifested is the
evidence that the Seed is the Seed of God. In fact I would like to break down
many of the attributes and characteristics of God Life in the Seed of God, and
show how it is manifested, in fact has to manifest when the light for the
season creates the correct atmosphere for the quickening to take place.
This morning I
would like to take our thoughts concerning this manifestation of the Seed Life
that comes forth because we have been quickened by the Word for the season. And
I want to show the evidence of that seed life in us, and we will do so by
running it from Genesis the Seed Chapter to Revelations which is the Book of
Manifestation.
From his
sermon, Queen of Sheba 61-0219 P:34 brother
Branham said, "You can't hide it. You can't hide genuine life. You
take natural life, botany life. Let that sun come warm. Now, like in my
country, the little seeds drops off, out of these flowers; they die. They
have a funeral procession; the--the skies cry down great big October tears and
buries them in the ground. The seed bursts; the pulp runs out. That isn't
the end of that flower. Just let the sun, the s-u-n, who has control of all
the life of botany, and then when it begins to shine upon the ground and get
it in a certain temperature; no other temperature will do it. Nothing else
will put that color in there but the sun. So you let it get in the right
temperature, the right
atmosphere, and that little germ of life hid somewhere in the dirt,
will come forth again. Did you ever lay concrete walk and notice in the
spring of the year, where is your thickest of the grass? Right around the edge
of the walk. What is it? It's that seed that was buried under that walk. And
when the temperature gets right, the season gets right, you can't hide life.
It'll work its way right through and come stick its little head up and praise
God. Because it's life. You can't hide it when the s-u-n is a shining. Just as
sure as the s-u-n brings botany life, the S-o-n brings Eternal Life. And you can't
hide it. It'll shine forth. There's something has to happen. Jesus said,
"If they hold their peace the stones will
immediately cry out." Something takes
place. When God, the eternal God, begins to shine His Spirit down, those
that are ordained to life will recognize it. They'll come and walk in the
Light, live in the Light.
Notice that he
said you cannot hide life, it has to manifest if there is indeed God-Life in you.
That is what John 14:12 is all about.
That is what we read last night from the Spoken Word is the Original Seed when
brother Branham said if the same Seed Life was in the Son of God is in you it
will produce son of God. It's all about Seed Life. What seed life is in you? And
the manifesting of that Life is the evidence that it is God Seed, eternal Life.
God's only provided place of
worship 65-1128M P:96 Now, the Lutherans wanted to get in one way, by
joining the Lutheran church. The Methodists wanted to get in by shouting. The
Pentecostals wanted to get in by speaking in tongues. That still ain't it. See?
No, that's gifts, so forth. But I Corinthians 12 says, "By one Spirit..." Spirit
of God, which is the Life-giver to the
Word, the Seed, to vindicate that Seed for that season. See? Here's
the Methodist age seed laying there; it taken the Holy Spirit to make that
seed come to life and purify the church by sanctification; Luther didn't
preach that, 'cause he didn't know it. The Pentecostals wanted to speak in
tongues for the restoration of the gifts. Each one declares, "That's it.
That's it." See?
Now, the fact is
that way too many people are looking for the promises of this hour or being conformed to
the Image of the first born son, and being manifested as sons of God,
and being adopted
and placed as sons, way too many people are putting that off in
their minds to the millennium, but those promises are for this season we are in
right now.
1 John 3:1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the
world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he
is pure.
Now, for the
next few minutes I'm going to read to you quotes from brother Branham showing
that we get always get what we expect, and Satan knows that, so he uses
misdirection to get you to look for the promises of God way off in the future
when those promises are here for us right now.
And brother
Branham taught us that is how the people always miss out on the promises of
God. They are always looking forward or looking backward and that is how the
people are always missing what God is doing now.
Jehovah Jireh 57-0106 P:25 I've always
said, "You
don't know who you are." That man setting by you is a son
of God. That woman setting by you is His daughter. And we are sons and
daughters of God, setting together in heavenly places right now in Christ Jesus, Him working
with us, confirming the Word with signs following. Not, we will
be in the millennium; we won't need healing in the millennium. Now
is when we need healing. Now is when God is Jehovah-jireh to provide
anything that we've got need of, for we're Abraham's seed under the
covenant, through the death, and burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Amen. That'll make a Baptist shout. That's right. Think of that. My, I really
feel religious when I think of that: saved by the grace of God, not by my
own will, but by His will. Not by my own desire, but He changed my
desire. My mind was once away from God, was changed and brought to God. I
could no more make myself do that, than a leopard could lick his spots off. No,
sir. It taken God to do it. It taken God to bring you here tonight. It taken
God to save you. And God is doing everything He can to show you His goodness to
you. Oh, I hope you see it.
Where I think Pentecost
failed 55-1111 P:12 So if you could ever get real good fundamental faith
amongst Pentecostal people, or fundamental doctrine with the Pentecostal
people, and the... or vice versa, I'd like to see what the meeting would be.
When the people realize that you are... not, you will be, you are, present tense, right now, sons
and daughters of God. You're pushing it way off out to the
millennium somewhere, all the blessings out in the millennium. Why, it's right now. We
won't need Divine healing in the millennium. Now, is when we
have it. We won't be sons of God, but now you're sons of God, and heirs, joint heirs with Jesus. And everything
that Jesus died for at Calvary is your possession. Amen. Brother, Satan
don't like that, because... if the people would only realize and just be
willing to take God at His Word, you would, you'd just hard... Well, it's
unlimited.
Redemption by power 54-0329
P:62 When you cross over that separating
line, you become fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God. Oh, my. How
good is it? Why, you become a new creature (oh, my), changed from this what you
are now. You are now the sons of God. Now, are we
sitting together in heavenly places, not, we will be in the millennium. We are now, right
now we're the sons of God. Right now we're sitting together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus, not just in the church; we're in Christ Jesus. The
resurrected Lord Jesus is here. He's here in His power. He's here in His
redemption power. He's here for the exodus. He's here to bring every church
member into fellowship with Him. He's here to bring every sinner, no matter how
low you are, He's here to bring the power of His resurrection into your life
and make you a new creature.
Witnesses 54-0303 P:25 Jesus Christ is
in the building tonight to perform miracles, but he does it through His
Church, His people. "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they
shall recover. In My Name they shall cast out evil spirits." Is that
right? The commission's given to the Church. That's what's the matter
with the Church today. It
doesn't know its position. If you knowed positionally who you
was and what you are tonight, there wouldn't be a feeble person in here in the
next five minutes. That's right. The thing of it is, you're looking off
into a millennium for something to happen, when it's already here. "Now we are the Sons of God." Not we will be, we are right now.
When? This night. Right now, this minute we're seated together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus, now. Oh, if you'd only recognize that. And the
supreme authority that Jesus Christ has given to every believer. Anything you
have desire of, need of, only thing you have to do is ask and receive it.
"Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it,
it'll be given unto you," St. Mark 11:24. And that's true. Whatsoever things you desire,
when you pray, believe that you receive it. And you shall have it.
Expectations and what love is
54-0228A P:41 Now, if he hasn't got the Holy Spirit in there,
he's got nothing but just his mind to rest on it, so he just can't comprehend the things of
God. He doesn't know them. The
natural mind can't understand the things of God; they're foolish to him. Now, the
Pentecostal or Full Gospel, you are... The one thing that I find that's one of
the greatest hindrance among us, is that you're trying to place the great
things of God, yet to come, when you're right in the middle of it now.
That's right. Now, you say, "Just wait till some..." Well, that could
be the millennium where we won't need any healings and things. That's the next
age to be issued in. Now
we're in the Holy Ghost age. Now you are the sons of God. Now we're
seated together in heavenly places, not we will be, we are now, this
afternoon, right here now, sons and daughters of God seated together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. There we are. See? All things are possible then.
What think ye of Christ
53-1213M P:23 What are we going to need miracles in the
millennium, when we're supernatural beings? See? How are we going to
need those thing... Now, the Bible said, "Now are we the sons of God." Not...
"Now" is present tense. "Now are we the sons." Not we will be, we are now.
We are this morning; we are this very hour. "Now are we the
sons of God, seated together, set together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus
now."Right
this very minute we're--we're seated together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. Every man, by one spirit we're all baptized into one Body, become
members of this Body by Holy Spirit baptism. And now, we're
seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, free from
judgment. We can
never go to the judgment. How can you be judged twice? God
judged Jesus Christ, and He put our judgment upon Christ, and Christ paid our
judgment at Calvary. If we're in Christ, we're secured in Christ. How do
we get into Christ? "By one
Spirit we're all baptized into one body." Is that right?
But what if we don't
look at the promises of God for some other day. What if we read the promises of God for our present tense day
that we live in now?
Promises like Collosians 3: 4 When Christ, who is
our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory.
From his
sermon, Father the hour has come 56-1002A P:49 Brother
BRanham said, "But the
time had come for that Word to be fulfilled. When the season rolls around,
don't you worry, the crop will be there. That's right. And
brethren, if there ever was a time... For the next few minutes now, I want to
talk to you to your heart. If there ever was a time, that the time has come for the Word to be
fulfilled, it's
now. This is the day. Seeds has been planted; it's time
to take the hoe and get out here, and go to cutting out some of these weeds and
things we got grown up, saw briers, and stink weeds, and everything else that's
grown up amongst the people: doubters, disbelievers, lukewarm, everything else.
It's time for us to get the hoe and chop it out. And there's nothing any better
than a two-edged sword of God to cut it with.
Let's read 2 Corinthians 3: 18
for this hour, the way God meant for it to be read. "Behold, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew
him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 4: 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we
may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is,
(That
is present tense, now) so are we in this world.
For the
remainder of this message we will go through many of the attributes and
characteristics of God Seed Life. And I want you to see that these are
attributes and characteristics that are not somewhere out in the future but
they are now. Now we are sons, not will be, we are now.
Therefore, All who are ordained to Life, believe
God's Word. This is present tense attributes and characteristics.
Acts 13:48, ... as many as were ordained to eternal life
believed.
Questions and answers COD
64-0823E P:25 That's the evidence of the Holy Ghost, when God reveals to you and you
see it, THUS SAITH THE LORD and accept it. Not what you are,
what you was, or nothing about it, it's what God has done for you now. There's
the evidence. Jesus said... He give us the evidence of the Holy Ghost, John 14. He said, "I have many
things to tell you. I haven't got time to do it, but when the Holy Ghost comes,
He will tell you, bring to your memory the things that I told you about, and
will also show you things that is to come." Don't you see? There's the
evidence.
1John 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things
Broken cisterns 64-0726E 37 Today I was talking
with my good friend Dr. Lee Vayle, who's present now. And he's quite a
theologian. And so we usually have some--have some pretty good discussions on
the Scripture. Very smart, and he asked me one time what I thought about the
initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, was it speaking in tongues? (It's been many
years ago.) I said, "No, can't see that."He said, "Neither do
I." said, "though I've been taught that." He said, "What
would you think would be a evidence?" I said, "The most perfect
evidence I can think of is love." And so we got to talking on that. And
then I thought, "That sounded pretty good." So I just held that: If a
man's got love. But one day the Lord in a vision straightened me out, and He
said that the evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word,
neither love nor speaking in tongues, but it's receiving the Word. P:38 And then Dr.
Vayle was saying to me that that is Scriptural. He said, "Because in John 14 Jesus said, 'When
He, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will reveal these things to you that
I've taught you, and will show you things to come.'" So
there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost. He's never told me anything
wrong yet. That it is; the evidence of the Holy Ghost is he who can believe
the Word, who can receive It. 'Cause Jesus never said, "When the Holy
Ghost is come, you'll speak with tongues." He never said, "The Holy
Ghost come you'd do any of those things," but He said, "He will take
these things of Mine and show them to you, and will show you things that is to
come." So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost according
to Jesus Himself.
1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged
of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
This day this scripture
65-0219 P:40 The Holy Ghost is the Word of God in you that
identifies Itself by accepting that Word. Outside of
that it can't be the Holy Ghost. If it says it's the Holy Spirit and denies
one word of that Bible, it cannot be the Holy Spirit. That's the evidence
whether you believe it or not.
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
which is the head, even Christ:
Another Attribute and characteristic of Sons of God
are that we love the True Word of God the Revealed & Vindicated Word for
their season
Way to have fellowship
55-1009 P:16 I love the Word, don't you? And you know why you
love the Word? You have the Holy Spirit in you. For the Bible said
that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God. So the Holy Spirit feeds on the Word.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the
Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye
love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Isa 60:3 And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light,
Ps 56:13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt
not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may
walk before God in the light of the living?
Expectations 50-0810 P:25 I love the
Word. The Holy Spirit feeds on the Word of God. Christians should
always read the Bible, for the Holy Spirit feeds... Its food is the Word of God.
"Man shall not live by bread alone (Amen. There it is.), but by every Word
that proceeds out of the mouth of God." That's what the Christian lives
on, the Word. And the Holy Spirit loves the Word, and He's here tonight to
receive the Word. And It's in you. And as the Word comes forth, then the Holy
Spirit takes the Word of God and reveals It. Simeon, he's an old man now. He
believed. It was revealed by the Holy Spirit that he wasn't going to die until
he'd seen the Lord's Christ.
Psalms 89:15 Blessed is
the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of
thy countenance
John 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 12:46 I am come a light into
the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness
Hebrews Chapter 3 57-0901M
P:3 You know the Bible said that would happen? (That's right.) And you Bible
readers, I heard you holler "Amen," and you preachers back there.
That's right. The love would be so far away in the last days, the only love
there would be left would be between the elect of God's people. The father
would be against mother, and mother against father, and the children against
parents, and different ones against each other. And the only love would be
left would just be that elect; just the elected. The word "elect," there, comes from the word "elected": God's elected people.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children
of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in
word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and
lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be
the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the
evil.
Only God's Sons can understand the Word
John 8:31 Then
said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:42
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth
and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not
understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear
my word. 44 (You
cannot possibly understand the things of God because you are of another Father.
) Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
When their eyes were opened
64-0416 P:32 What was it? They knowed the Word as far as the
letter was, but they didn't understand the Word when It was literally
interpreted. That's what it is today. Every man's got his own
interpretation, when God condemns the whole thing. God does His Own interpreting.
If God said He'll do a thing, He does it. That's the interpretation thereof. God
interprets His Own Word. There He was standing there, His Own Interpreter.
Hallelujah. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does His Own
interpretation. He doesn't need any seminary or any ministers, me, you, or no
one else to interpret Him. He promised it, and then He turns around and does
it. That settles it. That interprets Itself.
John 8:47 He that is of God
heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are
not of God.
Key to the door 62-1007 P:68 Now, when He
went away, He said, "It's expedient for Me that I go away. For, if I go
not away, the Holy Ghost will not come." See? Then when He
comes, He will reprove the world of sin, and teach righteousness, and show you
things to come; that's visions. "He'll take the things that I've taught to
you, and reveal them to you." The very Words that He's come... No man can understand the Word
outside the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And when a man says he's got
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and disputes the Word being right, there's
something wrong.
1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of
the world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Abraham 55-0624 P:22 Listen, first
you've got to be born again of the Spirit of God. If you're not, you'll never
understand the Word of God. God has said so. God said, "I have hid this
Bible from the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to they such as will
believe." If you want to get anything from God, just be a baby. Open up the
Bible. Fall in love with Jesus.